It's common to hear my peers cite "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" or "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" as their favorite Halloween special growing up. But my sister and I had another pick: "The Halloween That Almost Wasn't." Don't know it? I'm not surprised.
This relatively obscure 1979 show — which reached my home through annual Disney Channel broadcasts — was charming in its innocence. So well written and performed that it won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming, the special featured a parade of classic monsters concerned that the very concept of Halloween might be endangered. How they get from that opening to Dracula transforming himself into a "teeny tiny bat" in his misguided attempt to save the day entails a certain suspension of disbelief, but I say it's a tradeoff worth making.
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